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Understanding happiness: personal experience, psychology, economics, philosophy, history, religion, neurology etc.

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June 2010: Rationality, personal history, democratic crisis, parenting and luck.

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If the title has suggested to you that there has been a theme running through my blogging in June 2010, then I must apologize. How bounded is rationality? This post could be described as an economist's perspective on Jonah Lehre view more

May 2010: massive mining tax, Marx, metaphores and more

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In May I had two posts on the proposed new resources rent tax:Does a resource rent tax solve the problem of sovereign risk?I argue that investors will have perceived that the risks of investing in Australia to have increased as a view more

April 2010: happiness politics, identity economics, globalization and ...

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My posts during April covered a wider variety of topics than usual.How can policy advisors come to grips with complexity? This post comments on an aspect of the Australian Treasury's wellbeing framework for policy advice. Some view more

March 2010

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The theme of my blogging for the last six months has been ‘the good society' and ‘progress'. In the last 3 months of 2009 I was more or less writing to a plan to explore whether the good society was a useful concept. During the view more

February 2010

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I wrote about a few different things during February. Does the concept of national character make sense? J S Mill's concept of national character is linked to his views about progress (see posts in January). Mill suggested that view more